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Frederick: 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation--from the basics of «How to Draw a…

White: 101 Things to Learn in Art

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: What is the first thing to learn in art school? «Art can be anything.» The second thing? «Learn to draw.» With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and demonstrations offer both a toolkit of ideas for the art student and a set of…

Design Meets Disability

Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the fashion industry. Why shouldn't design sensibilities also be applied to hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, and communication aids? In return, disability can provoke radical new directions in mainstream design. Charles and Ray Eames's iconic…

Berardi Franco Bifo: The Soul at Work

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: An examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture — and a clarion call for a conspiracy of estranged people.

Virilio Paul: The Aesthetics of Disappearance

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Focusing onto the logistics of perception, this title introduces the author`s understanding of `picnolepsy` — the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps, glitches, and speed bumps lacing through and defining it.

Debord Guy: Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International

Скачать книгу (размер 2 028 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 399) Аннотация: This volume traces the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement — a cultural avant-garde that continues to inspire new generations of artists, theorists, and writers more than half a century later. Debord's letters — published here for the first time in English — provide a fascinating insider's view of just how this seemingly disorganized group drifting around a newly…

Sloterdijk Peter: Terror from the Air

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in Northern France. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary's vital function first. Using poison gas signaled the passage from…

Agamben Giorgio: The Signature of All Things

Скачать книгу (размер 626 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 124) Аннотация: The search to create a science of signatures that exceeds the attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to determine pure and unmarked signs.